Air Asia Indonesia flight with 162 people on board that lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control route to Singapore on Sunday, after the pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather and no distress signal was sent back. Flight QZ8501, which was travelling from Surabaya to Singapore on Sunday morning, has 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. The passengers include 149 Indonesians, one Singaporean, one British, one Malaysian and three Koreans. The plane left Juanda international airport in Surabaya in east Java at 5.35am (Indonesia time) and was expected to arrive in Singapore at 8.30am (Singapore time). Air Asia said the plane lost contact with air traffic control at 6.24am (Indonesia time). Local officials, however, said the plane lost contact at 6.17am (Indonesia time). Indonesia is one hour behind Singapore.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:11:26 +0000
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